Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture

ISBN-13: 9780815387893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 376 str.

John Clubbe

Opis

Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: the importance of portraiture; Provenance of a painting; Portraits of Byron; First portraitist of Philadelphia; Dramatic and historic portraiture: George Frederick Cooke and George Washington's passage of the Delaware; Dramatic and historic portraiture: Fanny Kemble and Queen Victoria; Byronic Biddle; The heroic decade: Lafayette to Byron; A portrait for Americans: Sully's Byron; Lavater's Physiognomy and Sully's Byron; Sully's Byron: the quest for verisimilitude in portraiture; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Clubbe, John